Review: Apple-Barley Salad
We really enjoyed this salad today. Barley is a delicious grain that we often forget about. This salad has a nice mixture of mint and parsley, with a wonderful dressing using apple juice. It was easy to veganize, by using agave instead of honey.We also added pomegranate seeds for texture and color. This was a [...]
Review: Roasted Cauliflower with Medjool Dates, Olives and Rosemary
Tami of the fabulous food blog Runing With Tweezers has come up with a delicious way to enjoy cauliflower. This is a wonderful combination of sweet dates with salty olives and pungent rosemary brought to the lovely nutty flavor roasted cauliflower. What a dream. It was very easy to make this a vegan recipe by [...]
Review: Apple Parsnip Soup
Isabelle of the blog called Crumb has created a delicious fall and winter soup from apples and parsnips. It is a delicious soup and very easy to adapt to be vegan. Just replace the butter with vegan margarine, and use either soy cream or soy yogurt instead of the creme freche. We used fresh organic [...]
Review: Quick Walnut Pâté Sandwiches with Pears and Arugula
This recipe comes from the Vegetarian Times October 2010 issue. It makes a delicious sandwich! The blend of flavors of the walnut pate, the roasted red pepper and the pears is really a delicious combination.The light peppery flavor of the arugula is also a nice addition. You could also adapt it to make an open [...]
Review: Sweet & Spicy Carrot Bisque
We really enjoyed this vegan recipe for a smooth and creamy carrot soup that we found on the Vegetarian Times’ blog. The recipe by Aylene Lambert, won Best Soup in Vegetarian Times’ 2011 Chef Challenge. The instructions are well written and easy to follow. We used some nutmeg and a sprig of lemon verbena as [...]
Review: Watermelon Summer Salad
This refreshing watermelon salad was a real suprise and perfect for a light summer meal. The salad offers a very interesting mixture of flavors that is really quite nice. We only adapted it slightly by using vegan cheese instead of feta. It was easy to make and the instructions are simple to follow. While watermelons [...]
Review: Cashew Basil Cream Sauce
My oh my, this was a delicious dinner. We saw this recipe created by Rosie of the Dandelion Vegan Blog. We enjoyed the cashew basil cream sauce with pasta as a main meal with lightly steamed green beans. The recipe is perfect and easy to make. Do give it a try, you will be quite [...]
Review: French Ratatouille Soup
We really enjoyed this soup tonight. We made the vegan version, of course, using vegetable bouillon, otherwise the recipe is vegan. It really did taste like a smooth pureed version of one of our favorite meals, the classic Provencal dish ratatouille. It’s a hearty soup that can be enjoyed as a supper with nice whole [...]
Review: Watermelon Agua Fresca
One Perfect Bite is one of my favorite omni blogs. Marry is a great cook, and takes lovely, inspiring photos. We saw this delcious, refreshing drink on her blog and looked forward to making it. It’s very easy to make, and very refreshing on a hot summer day. Do give it a try! Watermelon Agua [...]
Review: Barley Risotto with Fava Beans, Corn and Mushrooms
Cathy at ‘What Would Cathy Eat?’ came up with a real winner recipe. We really enjoyed this delicious meal tonight. Barley is one of our favorite grains, and we tend to forget to use it. The recipe quite easy to make, we only changed the mushrooms to fresh shiitake, as oyster mushrooms were not available [...]
Review: Fruited Quinoa Salad
We found this tasty salad recipe at 123EasyAsPie. There are many variations of quiona with fruit, we particularly enjoyed this one in the summer. We added pecans and used fresh mint instead of the parsley. We hope you give it a try and enjoy it as much as we did.
Review: Mint & Mango Marinated Zucchini Spaghetti
David and Luise of Green Kitchen Stories prepare delicious vegetarian meals and take wonderful inspiring photos. We spotted this lovely salad and looked forward to enjoying it over the weekend. It was very delicious and easy to make. We will be havig this one more often.
Review: Asparagus, Edamame, Beans and Fennel with Lemon-Chive Dressing
We had seen this inviting salad on the Tastespoting Blog. It looked so nice, we just had to give it a try. The recipe is from the new cookbook “Salad as a Meal – Healthy Main-Dish Salads for Every Season” by Patricia Wells (William Morrow Cookbooks, 2011). Of course, we adapted the salad dressing to [...]
Review: Mexican Sweet Potato Quinoa Salad
Allison Ruth of Some the Wiser came up with a great recipe for the goodLife {eats} blog. This Mexican Quinoa Salad was just delicious! It made a lot, so we are looking forward to left overs for lunch tomorrow. It is easy to make, and the instructions are easy to follow. I hope you give [...]
Review: Vegan crockpot blueberry rice pudding
We enjoyed this tasty rice pudding over the weekend. I had never thought about doing blueberry rice pudding but it was delicious. We added quite a bit of cinnamon, as we find it nice with blueberies, also nice with rice pudding. We used a bit of Soyatoo on top, but did not need any blueberry [...]
Review: Warm Lentil Salad with Grapes, Feta and Mint
We found this delicious recipe at Vegetarian Times. It was easy to veganize by merely substituting vegan cheese for the feta. We also cooked the lentils from dried rather than buying prepared lentils. This really tastes lovely (even better the next day) and we will look forward to having it more often over the summer, [...]
Review: Mango-Pea Salad with Sesame Dressing
As the temperatures rise, we look for more salads to enjoy as our main meals. We really enjoyed this recipe found at Vegetarian Times. It’s a delicious salad that is quick and easy to prepare. In fact, we did not follow the directions completely, as we enjoyed the salad raw. We did not need to [...]
Review: Easy Cheezy Peazy Pasta Balls
This salad is a real winner from Kathy from the Healthy Happy Life blog. Kathy is also the creator of the fabulous Finding Vegan site. The salad is quick and easy to make, and very tasty. We enjoyed it tonight with dinner, and are looking forward to leftovers for lunch tomorrow. We made it according [...]
Review: Sugar Snap Pea Salad with Sweet Ginger Soy Dressing
They say that imitation is the highest form of a compliment. We had seen this recipe and it was love at first sight. We really wanted to enjoy this fresh and colorful salad. It was indeed delicious. Quick and easy to make. Check out the recipe at My Favorite Flavours.
Review: Easy Mushroom-Spinach Curry
Yum yum, this dinner was really great. We found the recipe over at Holy Cow! Vegan Recipes. Vaishali has created a delicious meal here. Basically the recipe is quick and simple to make, the only tricky part is having the ingredients to make the sambar curry powder. We enjoyed the meal over white rice. This [...]
Review: Broad Bean Burgers
We really enjoyed these fava burgers for lunch today. The recipe comes from Maria, a Finnish girl living in Sydney, who created the Scandi Foodie Blog. It is not a vegetarian blog but there are some very nice recipes that can be adapted. This recipe made delicious burgers. We did a few adaptations in order [...]
Review: Mexican Cherry Tomato Salad
We enjoyed this delicious salad tonight. It was very easy to veganize, just using some soy cheese instead of the “Pepperjack” cheese. Otherwise, the recipe is vegan. It was quick and easy to make and oh so yummy. We didn’t have any black beans on hand, so we used black eyed peas instead. Guess that [...]
Review: Watercress soup with pear
This is a lovely soup. Su and her partner have created a relatively new cooking blog. Not vegan or vegetarian, but this soup did happen to be vegan (except for the garnish). We were happy to find it and give it a try. We of course adapted the recipe it by using smoked tofu as [...]
Review: Borscht Dip with Belgian Endive
We really enjoyed this nice fresh recipe from the The Diabetes Dtour Diet Cookbook. We ate it as an appetizer before our main meal. We did a few adjustments to make it vegan. We used plain soy yogurt in place of the no fat yogurt and did not add any dry milk solids. It made [...]
